51: How indigenous people can be climate champions on the road to a low carbon economy in India: A conversation with Satyabrata Acharyya PRADAN

51: How indigenous people can be climate champions on the road to a low carbon economy in India: A conversation with Satyabrata Acharyya PRADAN: It is an open secret that across the world indigenous people are on the frontline of climate crisis, they are particularly vulnerable to the extremes of climate change. Deforestation, unseasonal rains and shrinking water supplies are already impacting their precarious livelihoods. As a follow-up to my conversation with the World Benchmarking Alliance on a 'Just Transition' I spoke with Satyabrata Acharaya a veteran at PRADAN, working with indigenous communities in 7 of the poorest states in India. I was keen to understand what governments, multi-laterals, donors and the third sector are doing to articulate and embed concerns of indigenous people within India's roadmap to a low carbon economy. We also spoke about 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 👉🏾 COP26 and expectations 👉🏾 Feminisation of Indian farming; women farmers bearing the brunt of climate change 👉🏾 The Tribal Panchsheel Policy; understanding the importance of ownership of natural resources for indigenous communities and the potential benefits. 👉🏾 Role of India's indigenous people in sustainable management of resources and being at the forefront of battle against climate change 👉🏾 The high demand from developed countries and the private sector to align with partners for carbon sequestration (offsetting). And exploring sequestration as a concept sustainable for the communities that PRADAN works with 👉🏾 We also spoke about how India's National livelihoods programmes that currently offers financial support or livelihoods to the most vulnerable in India can help them in the fight against the climate crisis; 👉🏾 PRADAN's projects that are designed to mitigate the challenges of climate change and the partners on the journey. Want to learn more, listen here?